1957 Algiers ambulance rampage

The 1957 Algiers ambulance rampage occurred in the summer of 1957 when two FLN members murdered a French doctor in Algiers and stole his ambulance, which they used for a drive-by shooting against pied noirs in the city. The rampage killed and injured several French civilians before the attackers crashed into a building and died.

History
During the Battle of Algiers, the FLN resorted to terrorist attacks against the French Army and the pied noirs (French settlers) as the military captured or killed almost all of the FLN leadership in Algiers. In the summer of 1957, Fourou Alam and Gezul Rahim killed a French doctor and stole his ambulance, and Alam drove the ambulance as Rahim fired on people with a submachine gun. The body of the doctor was thrown onto the road in front of an art gallery, and Rahi fired at crowds with his machine gun as the ambulance moved through the European district. Rahim eventually ran out of ammunition, and he reached over to Alam's wheel and steered the ambulance into a crowd of French people running on the sidewalk. However, the truck crashed into a pillar, and the roof came down on the truck and killed the attackers.

Aftermath
Shortly after the ambulance attack, the French Army tracked down Algiers FLN leader Saadi Yacef and female FLN member Samia Lakhdari were captured in a French raid on their house, having already captured Yacef's bomb-making facility. Yacef's capture ended the bomb attacks in Algiers, and the FLN ceased to be much of a threat. Lakhdari tearfully exclaimed that FLN leader Ali La Pointe was still in the Casbah, telling the French that the FLN were not yet defeated, so the French would hunt down La Pointe and kill him in September. The FLN leadership was wiped out in the months following the ambulance attack, which was one of the last major attacks in Algiers.